Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be wagered on in casinos across the world, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet account. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire cash. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has hold buttons, and players should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the enthusiast has decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are dealt if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning gamblers are able to select the most profitable ones each and every time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the bettor a chance to double their wins, in which case another round is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.